Bulletin Board

CALCULUS
HELP SESSIONS
There are a number of ways
to get help with hard problems or for understanding
some material a little better .
Firstly my
office hours
Monday and Friday.
You should feel free to come in and talk about
any material
. If you can't make those hours you can
speak to me or send me an e-mail and perhaps
we can find another time, although I cannot promise that I will be available at all times .
Another possibility is to use one of the office
hours of your 131 subsection.

Next there is the
Calculus Help Room
and Calculus
Help Desk . It will first open September 3rd.
Details about these can
be found on : www.math.wustl.edu/~blake/undergraduates/ta_officehours.html
and
www.artsci.wustl.edu/%7Efreiwald/help.html
.

Then there is
PLTL at which you work
together with other students and a leader to
solve problems .
There are 32 spots for PLTL which
will be filled by lottery if necessary.
You can contact PLTL via website
:
www.math.wustl.edu/~lisak/pltl.html
.
Any questions can be answered using e-mail:
lisak@math.wustl.edu . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUIZZES
: You will have 10
quizzes during the semester each
taken at the begining of your discusssion
section .
The dates
of the 10 quizzes can be found
below on the Syllabus . On the syllabus
you can find a list of sections from which
problems
come on each of the 10 quizzes
. The problems are usually similar to the suggested
exercises for each of those sections
.
The total quiz score
at the end of the semester will
be the sum of the best 6 out of 10
quiz scores , with
at least two coming from your
last 4 .

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEBWORK
: There will be 10
Webworks over the semester .
Each WW must be completed by 11:59 PM
on the due date .
These dates appear
on the syllabus below . To get onto WW first click
"webwork" on the Math Dept. page .
After
that you will see places for your ID number
and your password . To start with, your password
is your ID number .
Once you get on
you can change your password for future use . Note that
all the due dates are on some Friday
.
Each
Webwork will have 10 problems
the solution of each must be entered
online . The system will tell you if your answer is correct
or incorrect . If it is incorrect
you may try again and again , as
many times as you like .

GRADES
: Each
of the Exams 1-4
will count 18%
toward the final course
grade . Similarly
the grade of the quizzes will be
18% .
The WeBWorK will be
10% .

To be more precise , If
E1 , E2 , E3
, and F are your
four exam scores ,
QU is your quiz
score , WeB your
WeBWorK score
then
your total
T is given by :

T = .18(E1
+ E2 + E3 + F + QU )
+ .10 WeB

In cases
where your lowest score on
E1,E2, E3
is less than
F
then in the formula that score
will be replaced by
F . EXAMPLE : if E2
is your lowest score and
it is less than F ,
then the formula would read T = .18(E1+F+E3+F+Qu)
+ .10 WeB
.

As for your
letter
grade
for the course , your grade
cannot
be lower
than what it would be if it
were based on the scale
appearing in the following table.
.

Numerical Range

Letter Grade

90
to 100

A

80
to 89

B

65
to 79

C

50 to 64

D

Below 50

F or NC

Missed Exams
:
If you are
unable to take one
of Exams E1-E3
for legitimate reasons (
such as verified illness or
serious family emergency ) you
will be given an excused absence
for that exam .
NO MAKEUP
EXAMS ARE GIVEN FOR THE THREE EVENING EXAMS GIVEN DURING THE TERM. .
Your grade for the missed interm exam
will be calculated by a statistical
proceedure which uses your scores
on the other taken exams, including
the Final .

If you miss the Final Exam
for a legitimate reason then
you will be given a make-up
Final exam at the begining of the
next semester .
Not coming because you overslept or forgot
the time of the exam is not a
legitimate reason .

Policy for
taking exams :

You should always bring
your Washington University Photo
ID to exams
; proctors will check student ID's
.
A standard-sized 3x5
index card will be permitted
as a "cheat sheet"
on the exams. If a calculator is allowed for a
particular exam or quiz it must be a Scientific
caculator, NOT A GRAPHING CALCULATOR. .

Just before each exam you can
look up your exam room assignment
on the web (see above,
"check here on exam day" ) . The room
will probably not be your regular classroom,
and it may change for each exam. You will
be allowed to enter the exam room a few minutes
before the starting time to locate your
seat and personalized exam booklet which
will have your name printed on it in large
letters.

EXAM RETURNS
: There will be a short time after each
exam is graded
when you can look at
your graded exam in the Math
Office ( Cupples
I , room 100
) if you feel there might have
been some error in the grading .
After that the exams will be put out in a
cabinet by the Math 131 bulletin board on the first
floor of Cupples I , for you to pick up . Once
the exams are returned it will be
more difficult to check for possible
errors in grading .

Resources for Help
with Math 131
: Old
Exams and solutions
are posted on the web as a study
guide ( see above , "solutions"
) . This comes from the Math Department
page and it includes exams from
the past semesters , starting
with Spring 2000 . Copies
of some of these exams should also
be available to view or copy at the Reserve
Desk of Olin Library.

Calculus Study Group :
Study groups are
organized as needed by
The Center for Advanced
Learning located
in
Conerstone
( in Gregg Hall
on the south 40 ) . They are
conducted by graduate and undergraduate
math students . If you want
to belong to such a study group you must
make a commitment to attend
the group regularly
( not just " come
when you feel like it" ) .
For more information you can look on the website
cornerstone.wustl.edu
or
call them at
935-5970 .

3. Text :
University Calculus, Elements with Early Transcendentals by
Hass, Weir & Thomas. &nbsp (This should be available at the campus book store.)

4.
Syllabus

WE WILL COVER THE FIRST FOUR CHAPTERS OF THE TEXTBOOK IN ORDER.
I WILL UPDATE THIS PAGE REGULARLY TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT MATERIAL WILL
BE COVERED IN UPCOMING LECTURES, QUIZZES AND EXAMS, ALONG WITH SUGGESTED
ODD-NUMBERED EXERCISES FROM THE TEXTBOOK THAT YOU MIGHT DO IN ORDER TO BETTER
UNDERSTAND THE MATERIAL FROM EACH LECTURE. HERE YOU WILL ALSO FIND DUE DATES FOR YOUR WEBWORK
ASSIGNMENTS.

IMPORTANT: I WILL NOT TAKE ATTENDANCE AT LECTURES, AND ATTENDANCE IS NOT MANDATORY. HOWEVER, YOU
ARE EXPECTED TO KNOW ALL MATERIAL COVERED IN ALL LECTURES, WHETHER OR NOT THIS MATERIAL APPEARS IN
THE TEXTBOOK OR ON THIS SYLLABUS. I DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT MATERIAL COVERED IN LECTURES BUT NOT IN
THE TEXTBOOK OR SYLLABUS WILL NOT APPEAR ON EXAMS.